Beowulf Timeline, Exercises of Ancient history

Download Beowulf Timeline and more Exercises Ancient history in PDF only on Docsity! Beowulf Timeline Retell the key events in Beowulf in chronological order. Background The epic poem, Beowulf, is over 3000 lines long! The main events include the building of Heorot, Beowulf’s battle with the monster, Grendel, and his time as King of Geatland. Instructions 1. Cut out the events. 2. Put them in the correct order to retell the story. 3. Draw a picture to illustrate each event on your story timeline. er « Beowulf returned Hrothgar built Beowulf fought Grendel attacked home to Heorot. Grendel’s mother. Heorot. Geatland. Beowulf’s Beowulf was Beowulf fought | Beowulf travelled funeral. crowned King of Grendel. to Denmark the Geats. Beowulf fought f foug Heorot lay silent. the dragon. 249H 3X@L 49S “OT auaH 3XAL Y19S “8 248H 3XAL YINS “9 248H 3XAL YON “7 42H XL YS *Z 42H Wel YS “6 aueH 3XAL YS “L 248H 3XAL YDS “S 248H 3XAL YON “€ 242H 3XAL 41S “T Beowulf Timeline Retell the key events in Beowulf in chronological order. Background The epic poem, Beowulf, is over 3000 lines long! The main events include the building of Heorot, Beowulf’s battle with the monster, Grendel, and his time as King of Geatland. Instructions There are ten main events in the story of Beowulf. Some of these are given below but you need to use the lesson PowerPoint, the internet or non-fiction books to find the others. 1. Write some information about each event in the story. 2. Draw a picture to illustrate each event on your story timeline. eer kkk 1. Hrothgar built | 2. 3. Heorot lay 4. Heorot. silent. 5, Beowulf 6. 7. 8. Beowulf was fought Grendel. crowned King of the Geats. 249H 3X@L 49S “OT auaH 3XAL Y19S “8 248H 3XAL YINS “9 248H 3XAL YON “7 42H XL YS *Z 42H Wel YS “6 aueH 3XAL YS “L 248H 3XAL YDS “S 248H 3XAL YON “€ 242H 3XAL 41S “T Beowulf Timeline Answers home to Geatland. Hrothgar gave him the family heirloom sword and other gold and treasure as a thank you for killing Grendel and his mother. He warned him of the dangers of pride and fame. King of the Geats. Eventually, Beowulf became King and he was a respected and kind king for many years. 1. Hrothgar built Heorot. 2. Grendel attacked 3. Heorot lay silent. Heorot, meaning hart, Heorot. Grendel was a Grendel killed 30 of was a seat of government monster who lived in the Hrothgar’s men and the as well as a place for the swamps near Heorot. people were terrified king's warriors to live. He was angry when he of him so they lived at heard the noise from home quietly for the the feasts in Heorot. next twelve years. 4. Beowulf travelled 5. Beowulf fought Grendel. 6. Beowulf fought Grendel’s to Denmark. Hrothgar was happy to mother. She was angry When news of Grendel's have help and agreed that her son had been attack on the Danes to have another feast killed and attacked reached Geatland, in Heorot. Afterwards, Heorot when Hrothgar Beowulf stayed there . Beowulf went to waiting until Grendel was celebrating. Denmark to help. attacked again. Beowulf Beowulf followed her to defeated Grendel and her lair and killed her the monster went back with her own sword. to his swamp and died. 7. Beowulf returned 8. Beowulf was crowned. 9. Beowulf fought the dragon. Fifty years after Beowulf killed Grendel, one of his servants stole a golden cup from a dragon. The dragon was angry and burned everything around him. Beowulf boasted that he would kill the dragon alone but because he was older, the dragon defeated him. 10. Beowulf’s funeral. Beowulf is burned on a funeral pyre and the Geats built a barrow or tumulus in his honour overlooking the sea. eo